Large heavy example, Ex Sir Cecil Armitage Collection. 5 ¼” height with central heart form displaying a central heart in trefoils surrounded by cabled borders and further border of circles and triple pellets. The top with a cross bar surmounted by a cable and pellet cross with a head of a hornbill above. Animabri, the mythological flesh eating hornbill is central to the Ashanti myth of creation. Side rings for a leather neck cord. Could be worn today as a very dramatic cultural statement.
